Reading Script From Seperate File

[Anuin 0]

This is a tough question for me cause i have 0 programing knowledge, besides learning some auto it.

Anyway, I was wondering if its possible to read a command or variable from a seperate file.

IE. Have on one file:

$a = $b

and on the second file, store:

$b = 54

what im trying to do is save mouse coordinates in a seperate file so that when the the script loads up again you dont have to re -input the coordinates again unless you want to.

[Jos 1,021]

the best way to save info is probably saving it into a INI file.

IniWrite("C:\Temp\myfile.ini", "section2", "key", "this is a new value")

$var = IniRead("C:\Temp\myfile.ini", "section2", "key", "NotFound")
MsgBox(4096, "Result", $var)

[Anuin 0]

Thanks Man!!!

Exactly what i was looking for. You saved me from a world of frustration

[Anuin 0]

I have another problem. Everything seems to be working fine, but cant get the mouse position to store mabe my code is wrong.

Ive Tried

$toolset = MsgBox(4, "Toolbar Settings", "Change the Toolbar Settings")

If $toolset = 6 Then
$pos1 = MouseGetPos()
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos1[0],$pos1[1])
EndIf

$pos1 = iniread("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", ($pos1[0],$pos1[1]) )
MsgBox(4096, "Result", $pos1)

And also:

$toolset = MsgBox(4, "Toolbar Settings", "Change the Toolbar Settings")

If $toolset = 6 Then
$pos1 = MouseGetPos()
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos1)
EndIf

$pos1 = iniread("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos1)
MsgBox(4096, "Result", $pos1)

[Anuin 0]

Sorry made mistake. The firstone goes:

$toolset = MsgBox(4, "Toolbar Settings", "Change the Toolbar Settings")

If $toolset = 6 Then
$pos1 = MouseGetPos()
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos1[0],$pos1[1])
EndIf

$pos1 = iniread("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos1[0],$pos1[1] )
MsgBox(4096, "Result", $pos1)

And yes ive tried it with brackets as well

[scriptkitty 1]

Ini read and write use one bit of information, you placed in both $pos1[0] and $pos1[1] on the same line seperated by a comma, and thus not the correct number of parameters.

$toolset = MsgBox(4, "Toolbar Settings", "Change the Toolbar Settings")
If $toolset = 6 Then
$pos1 = MouseGetPos()
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos1[0])
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse2", $pos1[1])
EndIf
dim $pos1[2]

$pos1[0] = iniread("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", 0 )
$pos1[1] = iniread("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse2", 0)

MsgBox(4096, "Result", $pos1[0]&@CRLF&$pos1[1])

Edited March 8, 2004 by scriptkitty

[GrahamS 0]

Ini files can only store one value per element, so use two elements, e.g.

IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "MouseX", $pos1[0])
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "MouseY", $pos1[1])

Edit: ScriptKitty got in there first, chiz

Edited March 8, 2004 by GrahamS

[Anuin 0]

Thanks Allot Guys, works like its supposta

[trids 1]

And then there's this idea (I got from TextPad I think? ) ..

$pos1 = MouseGetPos()
IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "MouseXY", $pos1[0] & " " & $pos1[1])

This means you can do a StringSplit when you read it back..

$sPos = IniRead("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "MouseXY", "0 0")
$aPos = StringSplit($sPos, " ")

Granted, you're not saving any code for MouseGetPos, and you're only saving one line in the INI file ... but ... think how this technique works on say WinGetPos which has 4 items to store and read back

[scriptkitty 1]

Yea, one of the main reasons for an array is to be able to dynamically call out dimentions in an array.

You can store InI files many ways.

Here is a sloppy example, I personally would remove the first , but shown more simply in this example.

$toolset = MsgBox(4, "Toolbar Settings", "Change the Toolbar Settings")
If $toolset = 6 Then
$pos1 = MouseGetPos()

for $i=0 to 1
$pos=$pos&","&$pos1[$i]
next

IniWrite("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", $pos)
EndIf

$split=(iniread("MouseSetting2.ini", "Mouse", "Mouse1", 0 ))
$pos1= StringSplit($split,","); shown in two lines only for ease of viewing.

MsgBox(4096, "Result", $pos1[2]&@CRLF&$pos1[3])